The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.

Love! Hate! Is there no third?

If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock asnot going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch's greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.